Natasha Reichle is the Associate Curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. She holds a BA in Literature from Yale University and an MA and PhD in the History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic background is in the Hindu, Buddhist, and early Islamic art of Indonesia. Her dissertation and subsequent book (Violence and Serenity: Late Buddhist Art of Indonesia, University of Hawai’i Press, 2007) focused on the late Buddhist sculpture and architecture of Java and Sumatra. Before joining the Asian Art Museum, she taught classes in Southeast Asian art history at U.C. Berkeley and Stanford. While at the museum, she has been increasingly interested in issues of provenance, with exhibitions focusing on the collecting history of objects from the Philippines and on the provenance and ethical issues surrounding Vietnamese and Cham artworks excavated via marine archaeology.

 

As a participant in the CO-OP research and seminar project, she is looking forward to learning from a diverse community of experts and colleagues from around the world. She is particularly interested in forging channels of communication and paths of collaboration regarding restitution, reparation, and custodianship.